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tholman / github-corners

A fresher "Fork me on GitHub" callout.
http://tholman.com/github-corners
MIT License
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meeting the license condition #49

Closed alepinio closed 3 years ago

alepinio commented 3 years ago

I want to use one of your github corners in a web server whose code will be publicly available...do you have any ideas about how can I meet the condition required by the MIT license of this repo?

BTW, great job!

tholman commented 3 years ago

I'm no lawyer but you should be fine to go, here's a resource I find useful in a pinch https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license (although no substitute for a professional)

alepinio commented 3 years ago

As this is the first time for me I will be copying just a chunk of code of a repo (one of your octocats appearing in index.html) instead of cloning it and preserving its license, I did some additional research on meeting the MIT license condition. Although licensing is a subject explained everywhere in the internet, unexpectedly there isn't a lot of resources providing examples of how to meet a license condition in a practical situation.

I found rather educational this issue https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/242, and the mention in https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/178486/what-exactly-does-the-condition-in-the-mit-license-imply about how Firefox deals with the licenses of the chunks of code it took from other projects.

I haven't decided yet if I will include your license in a HTML comment (just before the code of one of your octocats I will take from index.html) or in the license of my website's repository. I'm also planning to have a section in my website to credit all projects allowing me to actually build and serve the website.